print; book-illustration; illustrated book

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print; book-illustration; illustrated book

Object Type: print; book-illustration; illustrated book
Museum number: 1940,0529.2.1-26
Title: Object: The Royal Closet. - St. James's. | Her Majesty giving audience to an ambassador.; Object: The Royal Closet, - St. James' | The archbishops and bishops congratulating Her Majesty on her birthday.; Object: Bank of England. Five pound note office.; Object: Stock Exchange.; Object: Goldsmiths Hall. The grand staircase.; Object: Goldsmiths Hall on a ball night.; Object: Christ's Hospital. The great hall. | Delivery of the annual orations.; Object: St,, James's Palace. Birthday. Drawing Room.; Object: The United Service Club. | The great hall.; Object: The United Service Club. | The map room.; Object: Somerset House. | Meeting of the Royal Society.; Object: Somerset House. | Meeting of the Royal Antiquarian Society.; Object: Buckingham Palace, - the library. | Foreign levée.; Object: Buckingham Palace. The yellow drawing room.; Object: Tower of London. | The great horse armoury.; Object: Tower of London. | The crown jewel room.; Object: General Post Office. | Inland office.; Object: General Post Office. | Letter carriers room arranged for dispatch of newspapers.; Object: Tower of London: - The Norman chapel.; Object: Tower of London: - The Norman armoury.; Object: Public exhibition of frescoes & sculpture in Westminster Hall.; Object: Exhibition of the Royal Academy, - Private view.; Object: British Museum, - Egyptian room.; Object: British Museum, - zoological gallery.; Object: British Museum, - Elgin room.; Object: British Museum, - Additional library.
Description: Bound volume of 'London Interiors: A grand national exhibition...' (London: Joseph Mead, 1841-44), vol. II: titlepage; index; letterpress pages numbered 1-104, interleaved with 26 steel-engraved plates. Volume with letterpress text and steel-engraved plates
Producer name: Print made by: Henry Melville; Print made by: William Radclyffe (?); Print made by: Edward Radclyffe (?); Print made by: Thomas H Ellis; After: Llewelynn Frederick William Jewitt; After: Frederick Mackenzie; After: Sir John Gilbert; After: William Lee; After: Frederick William Fairholt; After: Henry Macmanus; After: B Sly; After: George Frederick Sargent; Printed by: William John Sears; Published by: Joseph Mead; Published by: Aubert; Published by: Theodor Oswald Weigel
School/style: British; French; German
Production date: 1843-1844
Production place: Published in: London (England); Published in: Paris (France); Published in: Leipzig
Materials
Technique: engraving; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 279 millimetres (approx. page size); Width: 218 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Curator's comments: Issued in parts, the prospectuses and wrappers bound in at the end of the volume. For volume I, see 1940,0529.1.1-49. 1940,0529.2.23-26 are views in the British Museum. 1940,0529.2.21, 'Public exhibition of frescoes & sculpture in Westminster Hall', refers to the exhibition of the 'competition in cartoons' held by the Royal Commission on the Fine Arts, May-June 1843; see 1854,1211.133 for further comment.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: architecture; museum/gallery; church; interior; palace/mansion; commercial/financial building; ceremony/ritual; club; dance; hospital/asylum; arts and sciences; post office/postbox; exhibition; sculpture; painting/print; antiquities; library
Associated names: Portrait of: Queen Victoria; Associated with: The British Museum
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Associated titles
Acquisition date: 1940
Acquisition notes: Given by Arthur E Adeney
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1940,0529.2.1-26

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